The economic growth over the last decades has gone hand in hand with the increase of the global energy demand. The use of fossil fuels, which are nowadays the world¿s leading energy source, entails serious environmental ...

Can democracy accommodate contemporary diverse and complex societies? Is deliberation an appropiate means for these ends? Even in the face of violent conflict? What is the role of citizens? The central objetive of this ...

[EN] This article studies the influence of regional institutional environment, measured as regional development, on capital structure of small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs). Furthermore, the standard firm-factor ...

[EN] The emergence of social networks has not just had a great impact in the way companies promote their products and services, but also in the decision-making process of consumers regarding their purchases. Using the ...

Prior studies have reported that seeing an Asian
face makes American English sound more accented. The current
study investigates whether this effect is perceptual, or if it
instead occurs at a later decision stage. We ...

[EN] Agency theory has been widely used in the franchising literature. This theory analyzes the contract relationships between the principal and agent and has been mostly applied to franchising in traditional sectors (e.g., ...

In the field of word recognition and reading, it is commonly assumed that frequently
repeated words create more accessible memory traces than infrequently repeated words,
thus capturing the word-frequency effect. ...